To: butterflywatcher - my gift

[Ariel Matias]

Hello (Ms ?) butterflywatcher,

As I understood from the other thread, one of your passion is taking photos of butterflies. And as promised, I am posting here two of my butterfly pictures taken from two different butterfly farms here in Costa Rica.

As a new guy here in this forum, consider these as my gifts to you for your warm welcome to me

Taken with Canon 40D, 100mm Macro USM lens, f/5.0 1/250s @ ISO400.

Tnx and i hope you like it.




This one entitled "Cocoon" at f/2.8 using the same set-up at 1/250s

[Lydia Robledo]

Thank you very much Ariel for the nice photos. The butterfly is the famous Monarch butterfly, from the Danaid family, (Danaus plexippus). Our local version is the Danaus chrysippus. The empty chrysallis (we use cocoon for moths, pupa or chrysallis for butterflies) is not the Monarch's shell. This may belong to another nice butterfly, maybe a Papilio. , a swallow tail. Watch out for the glassy winged one and the Blue Morpho butterflies. They are the most beautiful in Costa Rica. You can call me Telyds. That's what everybody calls me here.